{"id":6674,"date":"2013-11-14T12:52:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T17:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=6674"},"modified":"2013-11-14T12:55:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T17:55:21","slug":"check-our-work-esp-about-the-pipeline-gretchen-quarterman-lcc-2013-11-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/check-our-work-esp-about-the-pipeline-gretchen-quarterman-lcc-2013-11-12.html","title":{"rendered":"Check our work, esp. about the pipeline &#8211;Gretchen Quarterman @ LCC 2013-11-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f8kiGtG5GhA\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/f8kiGtG5GhA\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nFan of local government Gretchen suggested it\r\n&#8220;check our work&#8221; before whipsawing citizens in for items\r\nthat didn&#8217;t happen or failing to schedule a public hearing\r\neven after the Chairman asked for it, plus failing do deliver\r\nwhat was promised in open records requests,\r\nat the\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/check-your-pipeline-dollar-general-3-special-tax-lighting-districts-and-mosquitos-lcc-2013-11-12.html\">\r\n12 November 2013 Lowndes County Commission Regular Session<\/a>.\r\nToday she&#8217;s checking their work at\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/annual-retreat-work-session-lcc-2013-11-14.html\">their secretive Retreat Work Session<\/a>.\r\n<p>\r\nAt the Regular Session she noted that the\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/no-sabal-trail-dollar-general-3-special-tax-lighting-districts-and-mosquitos-lcc-2013-11-11.html#Sabal-Trail\">\r\nSabal Trail item<\/a>\r\nthat was misscheduled for the previous morning\r\ncaused several citizens to take off work to come\r\nin for something that didn&#8217;t happen.\r\n(You can find out more about that pipeline\r\nSaturday morning at 10AM at the\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/spectrabusters.org\/2013\/11\/12\/what-is-that-sabal-trail-gas-pipeline-and-how-to-stop-it-spectrabusters-information-meeting\/\">SpectraBusters Informational Meeting<\/a>.\r\n<p>\r\nShe mentioned the\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/no-sabal-trail-dollar-general-3-special-tax-lighting-districts-and-mosquitos-lcc-2013-11-11.html#Green-Lane\">\r\nGreen Lane item<\/a> that the Chairman had asked <!--more-->the previous morning to\r\nhave moved to Public Hearings, saying it still wasn&#8217;t moved on the\r\nagenda handed out at the door.\r\n<p>\r\nShe said she was promised 77 pages for an open records request for\r\na board packet and only got 74.\r\nShe said she did get an explanation from County Clerk Paige Dukes,\r\n<blockquote>\r\nBut I still really wish that we could check our work.\r\nI&#8217;m not saying that somebody&#8217;s not doing their work right,\r\nI&#8217;m just saying, when we check our work, then we know\r\nfor sure that we did our work correctly.\r\nThank you.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nThe Chairman thanked her, but all the Commissioners seemed\r\nto be studiously looking somewhere else.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/10857190075\/sizes\/z\/\" title=\"Check our work --Gretchen Quarterman @ LCC 2013-11-12\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3796\/10857190075_a1be04fbaa_z.jpg\" alt=\"Check our work --Gretchen Quarterman @ LCC 2013-11-12\"><\/a>\r\n<p>\r\nHere&#8217;s\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f8kiGtG5GhA\">\r\nthe video:<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f8kiGtG5GhA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n<br>\r\nCheck our work, esp. about the pipeline &#8211;Gretchen Quarterman\r\n<br>\r\nRegular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),\r\n<br>\r\nVideo by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),\r\n<br>\r\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 12 November 2013.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fan of local government Gretchen suggested it &#8220;check our work&#8221; before whipsawing citizens in for items that didn&#8217;t happen or failing to schedule a public hearing even after the Chairman asked for it, plus failing do deliver what was promised in open records requests, at the 12 November 2013 Lowndes County Commission Regular Session. 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